Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parshat Naso

good morning today we are learning parashat Nassau we are in art scroll homage page 7 49. last week we spoke about the census of the the entire Jewish Nation as well as the Levites and we learned that the living had three families and at the end of last week's Torah portion we mentioned the responsibilities of the family of kehat that They Carried the most holy utensils the the holy Ark the menorah the shulhan the table and the Miss bear the altar and in parashat Nassau we speak about the remaining two families Gershon and mirari so on page 749 verse 22 Hashem says to Moshe take a census of the sons of Gershon from 30 years until until 50 years of age because the levim served in the temple only from 30 until 50. and in verse 24 we list what their duties are this is the work of the gershonite family to work on to carry they shall carry the curtains of the Tabernacle at the 10th of meeting it's cover the first layer and the takash cover that's on top so they They Carried three um layers of roof one is called the Tabernacle mishkan when we say mishkan it refers to the roof of the of the Tabernacle the middle layer made from goat skins and the upper layer made from tahash Skins and the screen of the entrance of the tent of meeting and Lace hangings of the courtyard and the screen of the entrance of the Gate of the courtyard as well as the ropes and other utensils used to construct the mishkan so again the children of kehad carried the holy utensils the children of Gershon carried all the uh materials that were used for the roof and for lace screen and uh and uh lace hangings of the courtyard because the mishkan had the middle Building made of wooden planks heavy wooden beams and then it had an outer Courtyard made from lace hangings curtains and it had two screens actually three one for kodashakodashim the most holy one for the for the holy and one outer curtain for as the gate to the to the courtyard so this was the uh the job of children of Gershon now we go to verse 29. responsibilities of mirari the sons of mirari from 30 years until uh 50 they were also counted and verse 31 this is the charge of their burden the actual wooden planks of the Tabernacle is bars pillars sockets pillars of the courtyard upon which the lace hangings were hung and their sockets so the the pillar is the wooden peeler standing up and the socket is the either silver or copper metal base on which the the wooden pillar is standing the pegs on the ropes and other tools to build the mishkan and all the maintenance equipment so again to review the children of kehad had the most holy job They Carried the utensils the ark the menorah the schulhan and and the misbeha the children of Gershon carried materials for the roof the three layers of the roof the lace hangings around the courtyard and the the curtains for the screen for the gates entrance ways and the children of mirari carried the most heavy Parts though the heavy wooden beams and the metal sockets and the bars and all other utensils for the actual construction of the of the the wooden structure now we turn the page verse 35. from 30 years of age and up until 50 years of age everyone who comes to the legion for the work of the tent of meeting and now we give the numbers previously we said that they were counted and now we're giving the exact number of of Levites men between the ages of 30 and 50 that actually served in the temple verse the countings of kehat are 2750. verse 40. the countings of the families of the sons of Gershon 2630 and now verse 44 and 45 these were the countings of the families of the sons of mirari 3200 and in verse 47 we have the total of the Levites from 30 years of age and up until 50 years of age everyone who comes to perform the work of service and the work of burden in the tent of meaning their accountings were 8 580. so they were about eight and a half thousand working Levites now we'll go to chapter five the topic here is purification of the Jewish camp Hashem said to motion command the children of Israel and they shall expel from camp everyone who has impurity of Sarat or anyone who has zav a mission whether it's a man or woman and everyone contaminated by a human corpse male and female alike shall you expel to the outside of the camp shall you expel them so that they should not contaminate their camps among which I dwell so this paragraph lists three different levels of impurity Sarat zav and human corpse and as well it says expel from the camp shall you expel to the outside of the camp shall you expel them and it says three times the words expel those that are impure from from here we'll learn that there are three levels of impurity and they correspond to three camps that these people are not allowed to be in depending on the level of your impurity the greater number of camps you have to leave and there are three camps first of all the camp of the Temple or the mishkan the Tabernacle that is considered the the camp of sheikhinav divine presence that's the most holy the next one is the temp of the the camp of the Levites the area around the the Tabernacle that's where the Levites plus motion kohanim lived and the third Camp is the Israelite Camp all the other 12 tribes that's considered the Israelite camp and the three um kinds of impurity zav and corpse correspond to three levels of impurity Sarat is in the class by itself against harad is a leprosy-like spots on the body zav is in a class by itself for male and female these are unusual emissions uh uh from a man or from a woman and the the impurity of a corpse is together with the rest of all other impurities and it includes the impurity of a man who had seminal emission it includes a dead animal that was not slaughtered properly a card costs and all the other kinds of impurity are together so how is it divided so the impurity of sarad the metsora is the the highest level of impurity for this law and Ahmed Sora has to leave all three camps mitsura cannot be in the temple mitsura cannot be in the the Camp of Levites which in the later times when the temple was built in yerushalayim so the temple was the the the the camp of divine presence the whole yerushalaimed Jerusalem included in its walls was like the camp of Levites and then any other inhabited area in the desert it was the Israelite camp and in the land of Israel it's any City within any City walls that is the third Camp so mitsura has to leave all of them in the desert the mitsura stayed outside of the Israelite camp and therefore they stayed outside of the clouds of Glory and in the land of Israel anyone who was mid-sura had to stay outside any um city or town or Village and they had to stay there for seven days alone next one is zav zav is sent out of um only two camps the zav is allowed to be in the camp of Israelites but not in a camp of divine presence and not in the camp of Levites and uh the lowest level of impurity is what we refer to as impurity of a dead body or a corpse and such a person cannot be in only one Camp he cannot be in the camp of divine presence which means he cannot enter the Tabernacle or in later times the temple area um now just want to correct myself uh zav is not allowed to be in the temple area and the Temple area itself has two parts one is um where the Jewish people are allowed to be the Israelites are allowed to be and one is where only kohanim are allowed to be so where only kohanim are allowed to be that's the the first camp where the Jewish people are allowed to be that's the that's the second level and outside of Temple walls that's the third area so again someone who has impurity of the dead body is not allowed to go to the area of the the betamic dash the area where the uh Jewish people are not allowed to be only kohanim are allowed to be and therefore in modern times uh we since we are all impure we're not allowed to go on the Temple mount even though they are Muslims there since they are non-jews the laws of impurity don't apply to them however Jewish people are not allowed to go onto the Temple mount and Beyond the hotel beyond the Western Wall Jewish people are not allowed to go and therefore we view it as a as Divine Providence that the Temple mount is in the hands of the Muslims even though the Jewish people conquered it in 1967 and we had it and it's still officially in our um ownership but we voluntarily gave it to the jordanians and um we allowed Muslims to be there and we see it as the hand of God that since we wouldn't be able to go there anyway and if it was in our possession it would be a constant uh stumbling block that some Jews would want to go there and it would create a a fight don't go there I want to go there and we're not allowed to go there so Hashem arranged that we should voluntarily give it to the Arabs this way they protected from Intruders and The Intruders in this case unfortunately are the Jewish people who are impure now you may ask what about the soldiers the soldiers who are there for safety for protection they are allowed to be there because we know uh nothing stands uh before because before saving a life and being on Temple Mount and protecting the Jewish people below um is is very important and therefore they are the soldiers Jewish soldiers even though they may be impure they are allowed to be on the Temple Mount uh making sure that it's safe now someone is asking how do we know where codashakodashim is so uh we have a tradition that the place where eventually they build betamic Dash originally that's the place where the whole world began with the Evan hashitiya the foundation stone later that was the place where Adam harishon the first man brought the sacrifices some say on the on the place of the altar someplace say on the on the Evan hashitia in the holy of holies later that was the place where Noah brought sacrifices and later that was the place where avraham uh brought his son his hack as a Corban or he was about to and then later yaakov used that same Stone to pour oil on and he promised to Hashem if you bring me safely from the house of Lavan I will make this place as as a temple for you place where I serve you and then Jewish people fulfilled his promise by building the Temple here and then later in history David King David bought uh this mountain it was it was used as a threshing floor by a man called aravna the evil side um David bought it and prepared it and Muhammad King Solomon actually built the temple and the holy of holies was on on top of that rock that is called Evanna shatia the foundation stone the ark was placed directly on that rock now that is the reason why the Dome of the Rock the mask that is there temporarily now is called the Dome of the Rock what rock are we talking about that's the the original Rock the foundation stone that is still at the center of the Dome of the Rock and you can um find pictures online of that rock it's a large Rock in the center of that mosque and that is the according to our tradition that is the place of the holy of holies now we we turn it to Page 753 and um we have the laws of theft verse six a man or a woman who commits any of man's sins by committing treachery toward Hashem and what kind of treachery against Hashem we're talking about theft when you steal from a human being you transgress against God as well foreign they shall confess their sin that they committed from here we learn and the Mitzvah of confession we have to do we do we have to express to Hashem our recognition of our shortcomings of our sins and he shall make restitution for his guilt in its principle amount and add a fifth to it which means a person who voluntarily confesses that he stole he has to return the stolen object plus add a fifth to it and give it to the one to whom he is indebted however verse 8 says if the man has no relative to whom the debt can be returned usually if the person who um it was stolen from is no longer alive so the the payment goes to his children what if he doesn't have children then it goes to his brothers what if he doesn't have brothers then it goes to his cousins and so on and so forth so forth so what does it mean that a man will not have any relatives how is it possible that a Jew should not have relatives eventually if you go far enough all Jews are relatives we all came from the same father and mother um avraham it's so the sages say that it can only refer to a proselyte a convert because when an angel converts to Judaism he receives a New Soul and he becomes spiritually a new human being without any relatives if he gets married and he has children so he has relatives but we're talking about a as they call him a low lone soldier someone who converted without wife and he doesn't have children and he he did not get married and did not have children after conversion so when he dies he really has no relatives so if someone stole from a convert who has no relatives and then that convert died you still have obligation to return the stolen property of its value but who does it go to so the verse 8 says they returned dead is for Hashem for the kohen you he gives it to betamic Dash and the kohanim that serve uh there at that time they divide that money aside from the ram of atonement with which he shall provide him atonement which means that someone who stole and then later they confess and they admit their guilt they have to return the stolen property Plus at a fifth to it whenever the Torah says fifth it means that at the end there will be five portions he will add the fifth portion to it and now it's gonna have five which means he's adding a quarter 25 and now you will have he returns 125 and such a person has to also bring an offering of a ram now we start a new tab here in verse 12. and that is Sota is a woman who behaved in a suspicious way with another man and the husband becomes jealous and he suspects that something inappropriate happened between two of them and the the law states that if a husband suspects his wife she becomes forbidden to him until the suspicion is resolved either they find out that she is really guilty or they find out that she is innocent now if she is guilty since there were no Witnesses she receives a get divorce and she does not receive kituba and uh guilt here means that she had relations with another man but if she is innocent then she remains married to him she is permitted to him and uh because she had to go through this whole ordeal she is blessed for her innocence and she has good children now let's go and and read it inside speak to the children of Israel and say to them any man whose wife shall go astray and commit treachery against him and a man could have Lane with her carnally but it was hidden from the eyes of her husband and she became secluded and could have been defiled but there were no Witnesses against her and she had been no she had she had not been forced so what do you do the you're stuck since he suspects her and we're talking about the case where he saw that she's friendly with a man and he warned her I don't want you to talk to that man again and not only she talked to that man but she also became secluded with that man and now because there there is history the husband suspects that they actually had forbidden relations what is he supposed to do he's not allowed to be intimate with her because a woman that committed adultery becomes forbidden to her husband and to the adulterer as well even after the divorce of the husband she can she can no longer marry the adulterer but he's not sure so he's not allowed to be with her because maybe she committed adultery she cannot be married to her and at the same time maybe he doesn't want to divorce her because he divorces her yeah he's not going to have a wife and he has to pay her the ketuba the the set amount of money that he promised her when he married her so what is he supposed to do so the Torah says in order to dissolve this um suspicion he has to bring her to betamic Dutch the verse 15 says the man shall bring his wife to the kohen and he shall bring her offering for her she she comes to the temple she brings an offering and then she undergoes a test first she is given opportunity for confession Verse 18 the Quran shall have the woman stand before Hashem and uncover the woman's head first they embarrass her trying to influence her to admit because if she admits she'll just be divorced without kituba and that's it no other punishment but if she does not admit she'll have to undergo the test and potentially she might die through the test so we tell her please don't take such a risk if you're really guilty just admit and then you'll continue living and we try to make her tired less strong less stubborn we embarrass her by uncovering her her head because uh usually a married woman covers her hair now the page 757. and in the hand of kohen shall be the bitter Waters that cause curse and later the Torah will explain what kind of water we're talking about verse 19 now the kohen gives her an oath and says to the woman if a man has not leaned with you and you have not strayed in defilement with someone other than your husband then be proven innocent by these bitter Waters that can cause curse but if you have strayed with someone other than your husband and if you have been become defiled and the man other than your husband has leaned with you the kohen shall put the oath upon the woman the oath of the curse and say to her that if you are indeed guilty you will be a curse and oath among your people and Hashem will cause your thigh to collapse and your stomach to expand and explode basically quick death these Waters that cause curse shall enter your innards to cause stomach to distend and thigh to collapse and the woman shall respond amen amen a woman agrees she takes upon herself the the oath that if she is indeed guilty she will die by drinking these bitter Waters bitter Waters is not because they taste bitter but because they cause bitter and if she's guilty so now how do these Waters have power to cause death this is just spring water verse 23 explains shall inscribe these curses on a scroll whatever he told her that if you don't um listen if you did if you are guilty then yours you will die your thigh will collapse your stomach will explode and it includes God's name in it they write it with ink on parchment and then they dip the parchment into the water and erase it into the bitter Waters so now symbolically and maybe in reality you have the curse absorbed into the water it was stated verbally it was written on paper on those parchment and it was dissolved in the water the ink that composed The Curse with God's name is dissolved in water verse 24 when he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter Waters the cause curse then the waters that cause curse shall come into her for bitterness now verse 27 he shall cause her to drink the water and it shall be that if she had become defiled and had committed treasury against her husband the waters that cause curse shall come into her forbidness and her stomach shall be distended and her thigh shall collapse but if the woman had not been defiled and she is pure then she shall be proven innocent by this test and she shall bear seed she will have good children and she will have easy childbirth now we go to page um now before we start the new topic what happens in other cases first of all if there are witnesses that saw that she is alone with another man for an extended period of time that in itself is a proof enough that something inappropriate happened and she and the man deserve the death penalty in case where there were no Witnesses at all then the husband cannot suspect her just because he is jealous type he has no right to suspect her there must be at least one witness who saw that she is speaking to the man who the woman then was warned not to and then the at least one witness different opinions in the talmud saw her being alone with that man again only then the husband has the right to suspect her and to bring her to the temple what do we do in our times when we don't have the temple so in our times if the man knows for sure that the either with Witnesses or the woman admits that she committed adultery then they're not allowed to stay married together he must divorce her and she doesn't get the ketuba however if it's uh a suspicion and a strong suspicion with one witness and with a warning then there is no way out because uh there is no Temple he has the suspicion but there is no way to resolve it and so in such a case they cannot stay married he has to divorce her and at the same time he has to pay her connect tuba because it's not her fault she cannot be proven innocent um but therefore it is not recommended that a man should warn his wife in the with these words or and with Witness and of course it's never recommended for a woman to be uh friendly too friendly with other men to be flirting with other men Shalom and for sure it's forbidden for a man or a woman to be alone with the opposite gender um in a closed room these are the laws of yehud and we follow the laws of yehud specifically to protect our families um because unfortunately in the modern work environment where men and women constantly work together it is so common that men become friendly with women that women become friendly with men and the families are broken in addition that it is forbidden and there is actually a death penalty for adultery even though now we don't administer that penalty but families are broken and the children are heard and mamzarim are born and it all starts with by not following the laws of yehud means when a man and a woman who are not married to each other are in a room alone unless they are um father and the daughter brother and sister mother and son very close relatives they're otherwise they are not allowed to be secluded okay now on page 759 chapter 6 we start a new topic and that is Nazir Nazir is a man who takes upon himself extra restrictions in addition to things that the Torah forbids this man wanted to be more holy and he said I will put additional restrictions upon myself and the Torah says that is permissible and if if he does it he has to follow these laws so usually the Nazir says I want to be Nazir and it's uh assumed that this man or woman will abstain from wine and all grape products as well as from haircut or shaving and contact with the Dead these are the three main restrictions for the Nazir so verse 2 says a man or a woman who shall this or us dissociate himself remove himself from the rest by taking a nazirite vow of abstinence for the sake of Hashem and he has to abstain from new or aged wide which means grape juice and wine not even wine vinegar she cannot eat grapes and anything that grapes has have been steeped in he cannot eat raisins anything made from wine even grape seeds or grape skins he is not allowed to eat and he's not allowed to take a haircut or shave a razor shall not pass over his head and verse 6 says all the days of his abstinence for the sake of Hashem he shall not come near a dead person even if they're at his closest relatives like father mother sister brother son and daughter and wife those that even a kohen is allowed to uh participate in the burial and Nazir is not allowed to all the days of his abstinence he is Holy to Hashem verse 8 says now we turn to page 761 and what are the days of Nazir that the Torah keeps mentioning and that is the minimum of 30 days if a man or woman say I want to be a Nazir they become Nazir for 30 days that is the standard if they specified a number more than 30 days then they become Nasir for that amount of days for example they can say I want to be Nazir for 60 days 90 days a year 10 years whatever they say that becomes their obligation so we said that Nazir is not allowed to come into contact with a dead body on page 761 verse 9 the Torah explains what happens if they do come into the contact with a dead body by accident if a person should die near him with quick suddenness and contaminate his Nazarite head so now his period of Missouri stops he has to First purify himself bring a Corban and offering and start anew he has to start a new period of 30 days he shall shave his head on the day he becomes purified which is the seventh date because the impurity of dead body stays for seven days he has to sprinkle the third and the seventh day with the ashes of a red cow mixed with water and on the seventh day he goes to the mikra and then after that he takes a haircut shave and then verse 10 says on the Eighth Day the next morning he shall bring two turtle doves and the Cohen shall make one as a sin offering and one as an elevation offering verse 12. he shall dedicate to Hashem the days of his abstinence and he shall bring a sheep in its first year for Guilt offering so this concludes the process of his fixing the mistake or accident of becoming impure with a dead body now he starts again and in verse 13 and on we speak about how does the Nazir complete his purification his uh his term of being a nazia this shall be the law of the Nazarite on the day his abstinence is completed he shall bring himself to the entrance of the 10th of meeting he brings his offering uh male sheep for Ola a female sheep for hattad a ram for slam a basket of matzah made of Loaves and wafers and now we're at the at the verse 18. at the entrance of the tent of meeting the Nazarite shall shave his head and he takes all the hair that he shaved and puts it into the fire that is under the the feast peace offering he after offering the ram the parts that he's allowed to eat he they cook it in the temple and he puts the hair that he shaved under there the hair that he dedicated to Hashem because the Nazir is not allowed to cut his hair so the hair that was growing for those 30 or more days was a sign of his dedication to God so he takes it and he puts it in fire and then the kohen takes his portion he takes the cooked four leg of the RAM and one unleavened Loaf from the basket and one unleavened eleven wafer and place them on the palms of Nazir we are now on page 763 the kohen shall wave them as a wave sir service before Hashem it shall be holy for the kohen kohen can eat it aside from the breast of the weaving and the thigh of the raising up because normally we give the kohen from schlamim the the breast and the thigh and the Nazir gives him an addition the four leg the cooked four leg and one unleavened Loaf and one unleavened wafer afterwards the Nazir May drink wine his turn was completed successfully now by the way from here we see that there's such a thing that you use your hair in the service of God the Nazir takes upon himself a period of minimum 30 days during which he will not be able to drink wine shave his head and come into contact with the dead at the end of his term he takes that here which in a tangible Way shows the completion of his commitment to God he shows this is the amount of time that I dedicated to you and he burns it in the temple we have heard in the last decade or so the stories of Indian um here where women come to temples of Idols idols and they cut off their hair that they grew for many years as a service to their Idol and they leave it in the temple they don't burn it they cut it off they shave their hair head and they leave it in the temple and that here since it was used in the service of an idol become forbidden and that hair can no longer be used for anything not even to burn it for warmth that hair has to be buried and the big problem arises women that cover the hair with another woman's hair now you have to be very careful not to use Indian hair and according to Merchants wholesalers and manufacturers 99 of all worldwide a wig here is produced from Indian hair that these women donate to their Temple and the temple the idolatrous temple then does business with it and sells it to the wholesalers and manufacturers and so that makes human wig very um questionable and therefore a Jewish woman who decides to cover her hair with a wig should preferably use synthetic wig or she has to know firsthand with proper rabbinic supervision where the hair is coming from to make sure it's not coming from India even if you get blonde hair that just means they took black Indian hair and they bleached it so preferably a woman should use um synthetic wig but the best is to cover your hair with material head covering that would be a ideal according to safaradim Ashkenazi lenient to cover the hair with wigs but for them a synthetic wig is much more preferable you avoid problems with idol worship you don't want to put uh an object of idol worship onto your head the seat of yone of your Consciousness and you put Idol worshiping item on it and you bring it into your house it's very dangerous and strictly forbidden okay just something to be aware of and to avoid now we go to verse 23 and we have here the famous birkat kohanim the blessing of kohanim speak to aharon and his son saying so shall you bless the children of Israel saying to them May Hashem bless you and Safeguard you May Hashem illuminate his countenance for you and be gracious to you May Hashem lift his countenance to you and establish peace for you let them place my name upon the children of Israel and I shall bless them this is a commandment for kohanim to bless the Jewish people and in Israel in every synagogue they do it daily and outside of Israel only Safari synagogues do it daily Ashkenazi synagogues do it only on um holidays now this blessing is very powerful and it teaches us something about what's important in life first of all it says Hashem should bless you and protect you because a blessing without protection is not worth it if you receive a lot of good but then that good is taken away from you what good did it do for you only gave you a headache and heartache so Hashem should bless you and then protect your blessings you should bless your wealth and protect it you should bless your children give you children and protect them and so on May Hashem illuminate his countenance for you and be gracious to you means that Hashem should treat you with kindness Hashem should give you more than you deserve and Hashem should show his love for you eliminate his countenance he should show you a smiling face and the third blessing may Hashem lift his countenance to you and establish peace to you our sages say that peace being the final blessing is the the main blessing if there is peace there is prosperity there is happiness there is Success if there is no peace in family in the world or internal peace then all blessings mean nothing now we go to chapter 7 on page 765 and here we come to the new topic the the offerings of the tribal leaders the leaders of the 12 tribes voluntarily decided to make a donation and Hashem said to them that one leader should bring his donation per day and they started on the first of Nissan on the day of the inauguration of the Temple first they brought General offerings that they got together and let's see it was on the day that Moshe finished erecting the Tabernacle the first of Nissan verse 2 the leaders of Israel the head of their father's households broad offerings verse 3 what did they bring they brought their offering before Hashem six covered wagons and 12 oxen so this is the general offering they got together they they bought six covered wagons good wagons and 12 male cows Bulls and they were partners because there are only 12 wagons so one wagon for two leaders and one asks for each why did they donate oxen and wagons to help the Levites to carry the Tabernacle when the Jewish people are traveling verse seven two of the wagons and four of the oxen he gave to the children of Gershon in accordance with their work and four of the wagons and eight of the oxen he gave to the sons of mirari in accordance with their work and to the sons of kehat he did not give why because they carried the the most holy utensils which they had to carry on their shoulder now we go to page 767. Hashem said to Moshe verse 11 one leader each day one leader each day shall they bring their offering for the dedication of the altar so in addition to the general offering the six wagons and 12 oxen they also brought a personal offering each but it so happened that miraculously each one decided to bring exactly the same offering so for 12 days the same offerings were offered in the the Tabernacle from 12 different tribal leaders and this offering consisted of 21 different animals three utensils fine flower incense and oil and the the 21 animals were one bull one ram and one sheep used for Ola elevation offering one he goat used for hattat a sin offering two cows five Rams five he goes and five she goats I'm sorry sheep female sheep used for shalamin these are the animals that each travel tribal leader brought and the three utensils that they brought were one silver ball 130 shekel weight one silver Basin 70 shekel weight and both the silver bowl and silver Basin were filled with fine flour mixed with oil and the third utensil was a golden ladle its weight was 10 shekels and it was filled with incense with kid torrent these were the offerings of the tribal leaders now page seven 67 lists the offering of Yehuda in his Sahar page 769 lists the offering of zivulun revengemon and God each offering is exactly the same page 771 lists the offerings of Ephraim minase and Page 773 lists the offering of naftali and then gives us the totals now we go to page 773 verse 84. this was the dedication of the altar on the date was anointed from the leaders of Israel 12 silver balls 12 silver basins 12 gold ladles all the livestock for the elevation offering 12 volts 12 Rams 12 sheep in the first year and their meal offerings and for a hot for sin offering 12 he goes verse 88 all the livestock for the feast peace offering were 24 Bulls 60 Rams 60 he goes and 60 sheep in their first year this was the dedication of the altar after it was anointed and now verse 89 concludes this Torah portion when Moshe arrived at the tent of meeting to speak to Hashem now that the Tabernacle was built the inauguration service was completed when Moshe arrived at the tent of meeting to speak to Hashem he heard the voice speaking to him from Atop The cover that was upon the Ark of the testimony from between the two cherubs and Hashem spoke to him this describes exactly how Hashem spoke to Moshe that mosho was standing in the Holy in the Hegel facing the kodashakodashim the most holy the most holy was covered with a curtain so Moshe was not able to see inside but the voice of Hashem emanated from heaven came to the Ark on top of the Ark with the two cherubs golden Sheriff stood The Voice came from there and entered the holy and into the ears of Moshe and even though the the the voice of Hashem was very powerful and strong only Moshe heard him this concludes parashat Nassau thank you for listening shabbat shalom um